CyanogenMod 13, based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, first arrived in November 2015. It was soon switched to Android 6.0.1, and continued to be the main branch of CyanogenMod until version 14.1 was released one year later. After the CyanogenMod community re-organized into LineageOS, the distribution was renamed to LineageOS 13.

At this point, most of the devices that had LineageOS 13 have either been updated to v14.1, or dropped entirely (usually due to inactive maintainers). According to a recent commit, the Lineage build server has removed all LineageOS 13 targets, indicating that the Marshmallow branch of LineageOS has been discontinued.

Here is the list of devices that were still on v13:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 / Tab 2 10.1 GSM (espresso3g)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 / Tab 2 10.1 Wi-Fi/Wi-Fi + IR (espressowifi)

Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A GT-I9506 (ks01lte)

Google Nexus 10 (manta)

Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 (mondrianwifi)

Nvidia Shield Portable (roth)

GSM Google Galaxy Nexus (maguro)

Verizon Google Galaxy Nexus LTE (toro)

Sprint Google Galaxy Nexus LTE (toroplus)

All of these devices are pretty old at this point, but they still maintained a small install base. For example, the Nexus 10 is ranked at #66 on the LineageOS stats page, and the GSM Galaxy Nexus is ranked at #87.

Comments

Lord Argyris

Seeing all those older devices on that list that have until now been kept running long after losing official software support is a testament to the value of third party ROMs and an excellent point to bring up whenever the "why does anybody even root or ROM anymore?" debate comes up.

The Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 10 might be very old now (though, from what I've seen, the latter still has vocal fans), but they were still very much viable when they lost official support. Projects like CM (and later Lineage) have allowed folks who own these older devices to get more life out of their hardware, especially in cases like the Nexus tablets, which don't have modern equivalents.

Nathan J

Well, one of the reasons I have an iPhone now is because I didn't want to have to root/ROM anymore. After six years, I wanted a break, and the impression I had at that point in April 2016 was, Android is okay stock but better with root and even better with custom ROMs (assuming everything works). And iPhone doesn't need to be jailbroken, but... it's an iPhone. I am mostly sure my next phone will be a Pixel, and I'm hoping I won't have to root it or unlock it. I'm planning on running it stock as long as is feasible. I like stock Android, and every Android phone I've modified was with the purpose of getting stock Android or as close to it as possible. If that's what I get, I won't want to change it. With respect to Lineage, I like what they're doing, but I want to keep stock as long as possible. Now, when Google EOL's my phone and if I still want updates and Google isn't providing them... then I will seek bootloader unlock and use Lineage. I might even like Lineage more, I just love the idea of being happy with official firmware. iOS sucks, especially if you want to share something, but it's stable. It's fine. It's not Android, but "it'll do."

I want to put Lineage on my wife's tablet, but I've been out of the custom ROM scene for so long (22 months!) I'm a little intimidated. It's a 2013 Nexus 7. It's actually running Pure Nexus, so it's unlocked and has TWRP on it. I know I can just flash the latest TWRP, back up what I can back up, use Titanium (also on it, I believe) to back up app data, wipe the thing, flash latest Lineage, flash latest Gapps (small Gapps package because Nexus 7 has a small system partition) and restore stuff... but it's so much work and headache and my wife's not unhappy with it. I think it's running Marshmallow, so it's a bit outdated. And that's the dark side of running custom, you got to keep up on the updates yourself, and updating custom firmware means a wipe (data+cache), as opposed to OTAs which don't do that.

John Bush

And sure apple devices get updated... With a neutered version hosting the same OS number but it's hardly the latest and greatest.

To be fair, the "neutered version" that four year-old iPhones get still contains the same bug fixes and security patches that the brand new model has. Hardly any Android phones get official security updates for that long.

someone755

"But Google Play Services are on Play Store!1!!"

Nathan J

We're still holding the iPhone 4 not getting Siri against Apple? Do you recall when the Pixel got software features that the year-old Nexus 6P, a 2015 phone, didn't? Far more recent. Also, you picked a weird comment to take a pot shot at iOS on, don't you think?

It runs like a dream. And I was a real rom flasher untill a few months ago.

Firmino

What you use for no root adblocker?

C64

An adblock in my Samsung browser, Blokada, Disconnected for Samsung pro, an adfree YouTube and all my apps i bought thw pro or ad free version. Oow and BK disabler to disable everything (bloat) i want.

Brandon Shega

Nice, never heard of BK disabler, I'll have to give that shot. I've been disabling apps with the adb trick. What is Oow?

C64

Oow is me saying Oooooow

Andrew Palmer

I had a Moto G1 and a Moto G2 in my draw doing nothing. LineageOS brought them back to life and they run very very well too. I tried the ROM sence back with my HTC Desire and everytime you would have bugs and issues. This really put me off custom ROMs... until now. With LineageOS I am yet to find anything that doesn't work. I'm not saying there aren't issues but I certainly am yet to find one.

Marty

Speaking of LOS, I’ve been a heavy LOS user for awhile. But damn if it isn’t about the worst “Official” custom ROM for the Nextbit Robin. I’ve been going through many custom ROMs for my Robin over the last week...there’s aren’t a lot of “Official” ones, around 5...and most of them have some issues with various things. LOS, though, is the laggiest of them all. And the system framework isn’t as friendly...display/font size just isn’t calibrated well. To get a proper display size, you can’t have an acceptable font size. Font is either too small or too big.

I’ve settled on CarbonROM because it’s amazingly fast on the SD808-equipped Robin and isn’t laggy...it actually feels as smooth and almost as fast as my OP3T w/Oreo. Plus the display size and font size are just about right. And it works really well...no issues so far.

Bewear

I've got a similar problem with my Moto G5. Motorola couldn't care less about it. There are plenty of ROMs, but they all have issues (specially with USB tethering and camera). Now I regret having bought it. I should've saved more money and gone with the Redmi Note 4.

Marty

I considered a G5. Glad I didn’t get one. The Redmi Note 4, though, I could pull the trigger on one, but it isn’t as straightforward or easy to root as the Mi A1. But I read that the A1 has quality control problems so I shied away from both Xiaomi models.

Bewear

The bad thing about non-A1 Xiaomis is the horrible bootloader unlock petition process. You have to ask Xiaomi for permission, and that takes time (around 72 hours). My father got a Redmi Note 4, so I had to do everything. After you unlock the bootloader, though, everything is as simple as it would be with a Nexus device. The custom ROMs work perfectly, and even the Google Camera HDR mod works with LineageOS.

Still waiting for Lineage 15.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo to be released. Could this be a sign that are getting closer to it?

Delta Wolf

I hope so

Merkin McGee

It would be nice to get some sort of update from them. There hasn't been as much as a blog post on even a ballpark guess when they would start offering it. Would be nice to know something. They aren't nearly as good as CM was on that sorta thing.